Geoff Sharp has grown and led Internet businesses ranging from start-ups to large multi-national companies. He specializes in Internet services, content, and search, as well as social media and SaaS.

Mona Pearl is expert at international strategic development and global entrepreneurship. She has founded and operated three successful businesses and has worked with companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Michelin, Marriott, Fermilab, Philip Morris, United Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic.

Kent Turner has significant expertise leading regulated utilities including electric, telecom, gas, water, and waste water.

John Collard, CEO of Strategic Management Partners, Inc. (www.StrategicMgtPartners.com), has 35 years of operating experience leading in rapid growth, transition and turnaround environments. John’s wins total $950 million in new business for clients with $85 million in asset and investment recovery, while he has participated in 40+ transactions worth over $780 million.

John Lafferty boasts 40 years of experience in financial management. He has served as auditor, controller, treasurer, CFO, and COO for companies in the hospitality, real estate, construction, and finance industries, and as a senior-level business advisor, financial consultant, and trainer to emerging-growth companies in technology, e-commerce, direct mail, and manufacturing.

Ray Frost has 30 years experience in corporate finance, operations and accounting, primarily with emerging and mid-market businesses. His responsibilities span helping to launch start-up enterprises to playing successful roles in turnaround engagements. His passion and greatest strength is operational finance in the manufacturing sector.

Bob Dorf is a serial entrepreneur, serial investor, and serial interim CEO/COO/CMO. He is founding CEO/partner of Marketing 1to1/Peppers & Rogers Group, a 300-person global CRM, and founding CEO of Dorf & Stanton Communications, a $15-million communications and public relations firm.

James Jones has extensive C-level experience as COO and president of multi-divisional, international manufacturing companies in a number of disciplines. Jones has significant Supply Chain, Outsourcing and NPI (New Product Introduction) experience with start-up to Fortune 500 companies.

With more than 25 years of professional experience in commercial financial transactions, Robert Handler is expert at managing turnaround situations and other matters of corporate financial distress. In addition, Handler has dealt with business reorganizations, acquisitions, mergers, court-supervised receiverships, sales and liquidations across the country and in a wide variety of industries.

Joel Block is a speaker, writer, and former advisor to entrepreneurs once featured in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Investor's Business Daily. In his current business, Growth-Logic, Block teaches entrepreneurs and business leaders how to be successful.

Bernard Liebowitz, PhD, is president of the Chicago-based consulting firm Liebowitz & Associates., Liebowitz has been a consultant to businesses and industries since 1978 in the areas of executive and management coaching and development, strategic planning, team building, organizational design and restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.

With more than 30 years of leadership experience in the information technology services industry, Stuart Emanuel is a recognized thought leader and founder of NueVista Group, an IT consulting and services firm. Emanuel has led a $1B division of a public company, serves as senior advisor and consultant to numerous businesses, and raises capital for start-up companies in the technology and digital media space.

Glenn Gottfried is CEO of CCS-Adplus, an information services company, and former president of Thomson TFP (formerly Thomson Financial Publishing). Since Gottfried joined CCS-Adplus in February 2007, the company has nearly triple its client base.

Stuart Haugen has 30 years of sales, marketing, and general management experience that spans the consumer goods and technology industries. He has worked with major corporations, such as Nestle Purina, PepsiCo, and Campbell Soup Company, as well as a broad range of start-up and early stage technology companies.

With both Fortune 500 and start-up companies, Anna Prata JD has successfully restructured distressed environments, re-built teams, and led organizations resulting in increased revenue, growth, and profits. Prata operationally restructures, leads change, and develops integration initiatives both domestically and internationally.